Pallbearers carry a coffin from the John J. Sanvidge Funeral Home to load into a waiting hearse before the funeral services for M. Allen and Maria Lockrow at St. Augustine’s Church in Lansingburgh on Tuesday morning.
MIKE McMAHON - mmcmahon@digitalfirstmedia.com

TROY >> The couple killed last week in their riverfront home in Lansingburgh were remembered at a funeral Tuesday morning.

More than 200 people attended the Mass for Maria Lockrow, 59, and M. Allen Lockrow, 50, which ended with a eulogy delivered by M. Allen Lockrow’s brother-in-law, Jim Sullivan.

Sullivan said that his brother-in-law was the youngest of nine children and he was sometimes teased when his siblings were growing up for being their mother’s favorite. “Really, he was the favorite of everyone he met,” said Sullivan, who added that Lockrow enjoyed horses, hot peppers, the San Francisco 49ers, a cold beer and music, since he would designate himself the DJ at many parties.

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“Maria was the perfect wife for him. She had an emphatic passion for caring for people,” Sullivan said at St. Augustine’s Church, which was where the couple were married. “It is here, too, that we say goodbye, too soon.”

Sullivan described the double murder as “despicable” but said friends and family should remember the Lockrows as the “kind, gentle people that they really were.”

They were found in their 709 First Ave. home early last Wednesday morning when police responded to a call. The cause of death appeared to be from blunt force trauma, possibly from a baseball bat, officials said.

Their home in a white trailer along the Hudson River had flowers and burning candles outside on Tuesday.

Their wake was Monday across the street from the St. Augustine’s church. They were buried at St. Joseph’s cemetery.

No further updates on the homicides were available Tuesday. Police are looking for two men who were reportedly driving the victims’ blue 2013 Ford Escape SUV.